The revival in religion will be a rhetorical problem - new…

Keep the corners of your mouth turned up. Speak in a low, persuasive tone. Listen; be teachable. Laugh at good stories and learn to…

— Mother Teresa

The most important guideline when it comes to argument is the golden rule. If someone were addressing your point, what tone, what overall approach…

— Barry Eisler

You must attach yourself spiritually to what you have placed in your imagination as a future fact, and never allow anyone, anything, any circumstance,…

— Anonymous

Also, and this may sound naïve, but since my early days in journalism, I've felt that getting as close as possible to truth, revealing…

— Sheri Fink

American traditions and the American ethic require us to be truthful, but the most important reason is that truth is the best propaganda and…

— Edward R. Murrow

An oyster, that marvel of delicacy, that concentration of sapid excellence, that mouthful bwefore all other mouthfuls, who first had faith to believe it,…

— Henry Ward Beecher

The strength of a theory is not what it allows, but what it prohibits; if you can invent an equally persuasive explanation for any…

— Eliezer Yudkowsky

While the distance between the United States and Iraq is great, Saddam Hussein's ability to use his chemical and biological weapons against us is…

— Dianne Feinstein

We like to imagine that in history, truth will prevail through sheer persuasive power. Sadly, this is not the case. Truth needs champions...

— Llewellyn Rockwell

I am not unconscious of the persuasive power exerted by these considerations to drag men along in the current; but I am not at…

— Benjamin F. Wade

Knowing things halfway is a greater success than knowing things completely: it takes things to be simpler than they really are andso makes its…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

Modern literary theory sees a similarity between walking and writing that I find persuasive: words inscribe a text in the same way that a…

— Geoff Nicholson

Edward Conard’s book represents the most cogent and persuasive analysis of the Financial Crisis to date. It is deeper and likely more accurate than…

— Andrei Shleifer

A genuinely persuasive argument does not merely tell you that you are wrong about everything. It doesn't just beat on you from the outside.…

— Timothy Keller

“The reason that persuasive messages are short, pithy, and digestible in seconds is that we process them so quickly that they become familiar without…

— David DiSalvo